Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-27
GETTY AND COUNTRY"

Getty AND COUNTRY"
The local columns of THE GAZETTE yes
| terday recorded union of forces that
once thoroughly modified will bring un-
told good to town and county. The city
of Fort Worth and Tarrsnt county have
Joined hands in an effort for material
progress and common benefit, and this
effort should have the hearty co-opera-
ton of ever man in town and county.
It must be apparent to the dullest COM
prehension that the interests OF town and
county are mutual and reciprocal and the
result of any effort made by them COM
mon one. Had Fort Worth $4,000
people, every acre of land within reach of
it would be enhanced In value, not only
as salesble property, but as a produc-
ductive investment. With $4,000 people
in the city, "truck farming" within reach
of the city would be more profitable than
the cultivation of cotton. The lands OF
northern and eastern sections are not
held at $3.50 to $500 an acre because they
are richer and more productive
than those OF Texas which sell
at from s. to SIS, but because
large town and city populations provide
market easy of access to the products
of those lands; those lands are made
more valuable, to hold as well as to sell,
by the demands of the town people for
what is produced on those lands. The
growth and progress of the town is i'm
possible without corresponding benefit to
the country.
And the reverse is true. Gould Tar
rant county be given to-day
large population the needs of those
people would promote the trade
of the town and attract more
tradesmen whose wants would pro-
vide q larger market for the products
of the farm. Neither town nor county
can advance without promoting the ad-
vancement of the other, and the obvious
policy is that which has now been in
augurated, TO the end that the common
good may be the more substantially and
the sooner attained. When Newton and
Morris and Evans and Stephens and
Dwiggins and Jobling and Latimer and
Hudson and such men from the
county inaugurate movements to put fac
tories and people with mouths TO feed in
Fort Worth, they simply set on foot
movements to provide home market for
farm products that will enrich farm own
ers And when VanZandt and Smith
and Cummings and Malone and Mitchell
and such men Join in an effort
to provide home market for
farm products, they simply
labor to promote the interests OF their
town; for there can be no good to one as
there can be no evil to one, without good
or i'll to the other.
THE GAZETTE will not say this is a
movement that should not be allowed to
flag; THE GAZETTE says more: This is
g movement that should be vigorously
and persistently pushed. The good work
has been inaugurated; let it in
elude all the agencies that build up
and cement and make permanently pros
porous. The establishment OF manutac
turing enterprises will provide work for
the unemployed, and furnish means to
purchase the products of the farm. Add
to these the means of ready communica-
ton between the producer and the con-
sumer, which are found in good roads
not only straight roads but good roads,
so that when the farmer has
need to travel, he may select days when
he cannot work and thus save time. AS
it is now when ugly weather prevents
work on the farm it also prevents travel,
and good roads are as essential to the
building up of the farm as railroads are
to the building up of the town. With
factories and good roads there will come
to town and county such prosperity as
never entered the dreams of either.